Dana Edmonds: Consumed Consequences
Consumed Consequences is a multimedia art exhibition examining the human and environmental costs of overconsumption and fast fashion. Self-portrait oil paintings styled like fashion magazine editorials subvert logos and transform the seductive language of fashion in a reflection on desire, consumption, and disposability. 聽A mock fashion campaign video exposes the gap between glamour and exploitation, while digital illustration light boxes give clothing presence and ask viewers to reconsider their relationship with what they wear. The installation Skirting Around the Issue examines performative and transactional care in consumer culture and social media, showing how empathy can be exploited, commodified, and greenwashed. 聽These works make visible what is often invisible: the labour, ecological cost, and societal pressures embedded in disposable culture.
Across the exhibition, viewers are asked to reflect on their own complicity, notice cognitive dissonances, and imagine ethical alternatives.聽 Consumed Consequences challenges us to consider not only what we consume, but how we consume, and what it might mean to place care, ethics, and creativity at the centre of daily life.聽 (Dana Edmonds)
BIOGRAPHY聽 Dana Edmonds has a multidisciplinary practice balanced between painting and graphic and web design.聽 Born in Montreal, she studied Graphic Design at 爆料黑社 and Art Education at McGill before earning her BFA at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax (1990).聽 聽Since then she has participated in residencies in Banff, Alberta, and Montreal, and shown her work in Halifax, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and New York City,聽 聽She is a recipient of numerous grants awarded from the Canada Council for the Arts as well as from the Montreal Art Council and the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu茅bec.
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